Henry is king of Arsenal’s Olympian ascent

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IT WILL go down as one of the most memorable evenings in Arsenal’s star-spangled history. They travelled to the Eternal City in cautious mode but left on a high that they barely thought possible. AS Roma, the Serie A runners-up of last season, were defeated with an ease that bordered on contempt in the Stadio Olimpico.

Teamwork and honest graft laid the foundations for this startling victory in the opening fixture of the second group stage of the Champions League and Thierry Henry applied the gloss finish with as good a hat-trick as can have been seen for a long